regarding being capable of getting teacher1 to an ambulance and out to hospital AND the quad issue I am denying it. my security wont let me open your link. but since the rest that you quote is in Book 4 # 156882 I'm assuming we are reading the same thing. I am reading no such thing re: your allegations. my above post regarding what happened with teacher from room1 is correct.
another transcript of events is Book4 #184096.
re staging area: so what? Emergency response has nothing to do with parents being reunited with their kids. So what if it takes you a while to find your kids? what matters is they are safe/taken care of Book2 #6246 shows when each teacher signed out of firehouse; meaning her kids were all picked uped, statements taken etc.
they can try moving the staging area to Fairfield hills for the future but I assure you when parents hear 'active shooter' parents are still going to arrive at the school. just as they will in every other town/state.
the staties closed down Riverside to prevent more cars from coming in-true. was the road EVER blocked to emergency personnel coming in or out? -NO*. the transcripts show Emergency Response was getting in and out of the school area the whole time. Probably the dash cams show this too but I don't feel like looking at them now.
*well except for that 10 -15 mins they were told to block the road off while they got the children out.
Actually in this specific case, emergency response had very much to do with reunification, because it was parents' vehicles, in part, blocking the roads:
"At Sandy Hook, the school's reunification area was two blocks from the school, which caused incredible vehicle congestion."
http://web3.esd112.org/docs/default-source/risk-management-matters/spring-2013.pdf?sfvrsn=0
But aside from that, emergency response to any mass incident involving children is often graded partly according how well and smoothly family reunification proceeded. This is because fortunately, in this day and age, emergency services agencies take into account not only the physical well-being of the survivors, but their mental well-being as well, including the mental well-being of their parents. A well-oiled reunification plan also reduces secondary issues threatening community safety, of course to include road congestion--which, in a disaster, can prove deadly.
FEMA has an entire manual devoted to the importance of reunification, "Post-Disaster Reunification of Children: A Nationwide Approach."
"When parents are familiar with the emergency plans of their children's temporary care providers, including the reunification
components, they are more likely to follow evacuation and shelter-in-place orders, making everyone safer. Reunifying unaccompanied minors and separated or missing children with their parents or legal guardians in the aftermath of a disaster is a priority."
http://nationalmasscarestrategy.fil...ication-of-children-a-nationwide-approach.pdf
With all due respect, citing radio transmissions which discuss road blockage is not making an allegation. It is a simple statement of fact that road blockage was a problem at Sandy Hook, unless you are suggesting that Newtown EMS were somehow lying, or making fraudulent radio transmissions during the emergency response, which I certainly don't believe is the case.
Book 4, 156882 is a transcription of CT State Police transmissions; while CSP dispatchers do also reference road blockage (and read license plates over the air), the discussion about the quad is in the Newtown Fire/EMS transmissions.
If there's a better way to provide the transcript and audio, I'd be happy to oblige. Maybe SoundCloud? Unfortunately that will compress the audio further, but it will still be intelligible, in my experience. It is important for those interested to be able to review the original transmissions, imo.
Incidentally, the Book 4, 156882 CSP transcription goes only as far as 10:34 a.m.; Deb Pisani had not yet been extracted from the scene, and it would be almost three more hours before additional staff were located hiding in the school. The CSP transmission regarding cruisers blocking the road is made at 11:36 a.m.:
11:36:47
Fairfield Co. Police Fire & EMS -
Male: "Troopers at the scene, 9...756-UTZ...756-UTZ, 906-UTZ, if you could move your vehicles, we need emergency access into the building."
Book 4, 184096 (Sedensky's timeline of selected events) is helpful as an overview, but omits many individual transmissions. It includes neither the NPD nor CSP transmissions regarding blocked roads.
You'll note on the teacher sign-out sheet, Book 2, 6246, that a number of teachers left as late as 3:30 p.m., and that others have questions marks by their sign-out time. I do believe in fact that it is possible not all children were accounted for until this time, because police audio indicates continuing efforts to locate children into the afternoon.
To my knowledge Riverside was never closed down during this time frame; many people were coming and going, to include media who filmed late into the night across the road from the fire station. At times, though, especially early into the response, it was significantly congested and possibly blocked for lengths of time. The "gridlock" references refer to Dickenson, hower, as the fire station's quad was not affected by Riverside blockage, but was affected by Dickenson blockage.
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